10/2024
Department of Philosophy
University of
Delaware
24 Kent
Way
Newark, DE
19716
Harker Interdisciplinary Science
and Engineering Laboratory
University of Delaware
221 Academy Street, Room 471
Newark, DE 19716
I work in several areas of the ethics of information technology,
especially AI and machine ethics, and contribute to scholarship in philosophy
and in engineering. More generally, my interests lie in the ethical, social,
legal, and political impacts of emerging technologies.
University of Texas, Austin: Ph.D. in Philosophy.
Dissertation: “Formalism in Kant's Ethics” 1995
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,
Munich: DAAD dissertation-year fellow, 1993-1994
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg: B.A. in
Philosophy (with high honors), 1987
University of Delaware:
Associate Professor of Philosophy (2013-), Assistant Professor (2006-13),
Temporary Assistant Professor 2005-06; Delaware Biotechnology Institute,
Resident Faculty (2006-17), Affiliate (2017-); Secondary Appointments: Biden
School of Public Policy and Administration (2012-), Linguistics and Cognitive
Science (2012-)
Universitat des les Illes Balears: Visiting Research Professor (summer 2018)
Sorbonne
University: Visiting Researcher, Laboratoire d'Informatique (UPMC) – Équipe: Agents Cognitifs et Apprentissage
Symbolique Automatique,
(Fall 2015, Winter 2018, Summer 2019, Winter 2019)
University of Virginia: NSF Research Fellow, School of
Engineering and Applied Science (2003-05)
Santa Clara University: Lecturer in Philosophy (1997-2003); Adjunct Professor, Computer Engineering (2000-03)
Central Michigan University, Visiting Assistant Professor of
Philosophy (1996-97)
College of William & Mary, Visiting Assistant Professor
of Philosophy (1995-96)
Director, UD
Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy (2011-)
Director, UD
Program in Science, Ethics & Public Policy (2007-11)
UD Faculty Affiliations:
Delaware Environmental Institute (2013-); Data Science Institute (2018-);
Center for Autonomous and Robotic Systems (2019-); Master of Science in
Robotics (2019-); Sociotechnical Systems Center (2020-); Artificial
Intelligence Center of Excellence (2022-); Master of Science program in Data Science
(2024-)
Chair of the AI & Data
Ethics Advisory Board for NSF Proto-OKN Projects (2024-)
Delaware Humanities, Board of
Directors (2023-)
UD Provost's Working Group on AI
for Teaching and Learning (2023-)
UD Graduate
College Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence Review Committee (2023)
UD Vice President
for Research, Scholarship and Innovation Search (Research Panel) (2022-23)
UD Data Science
Institute Faculty Council and Training Working Group member (2022-)
UD Dissertation
Fellowship Review Committee (2021-22)
UD Strategic
Planning Committee on Expanding Interdisciplinary and Global Opportunities
(2021)
UD Provost Search
Committee (2017 & 2021)
UD Faculty Senate
Committee On Committees And Nominations
(2020-)
UD Academic Committee on Sustainability (2020-)
UD Graduate College Council (2019-) alternate
UD Council of Community Engagement and Public Service
Centers, UD (2016-)
UD Institutional Review Board alternate (2011-14) and voting
member (2013)
UD Respect Committee (2015-17)
State of Delaware,
Health and Social Services Human Subjects Review Board (2013-)
Cambridge Forum
on AI: Law and Governance
(Cambridge University Press) Editorial Board (2024-)
International
Association of Computing and Philosophy, Executive Board, Director of Minds
& Machines SIG (2016-24)
Awards Committee
Chair, International Association of Computing and Philosophy (2024-)
Philosophy
& Technology
(Springer) Associate Editor, Springer (2014-)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Editorial Board, Subject Editor for "Ethics and Information Technology" (2010-)
American Philosophical Association, Committee on Philosophy
& Computers Chair (2013-16), Associate Chair (2012-13)
Powers,
TM, editor
(2017). Philosophy and Computing: Essays in Epistemology, Philosophy of
Mind, Logic, and Ethics, Springer
Publishing
Powers, TM, and Kamolnick, P, editors (1999). From Kant to Weber:
Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social Theory, eds., Krieger
Publishing
Powers,
TM (forthcoming). Deontology and AI, in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to
Applied Philosophy of AI, eds. M Hähnel and R Müller,
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Berlin
Powers,
TM (under review). Understanding Sociotechnical Systems, in Computer Ethics
Across the Disciplines, eds. M Verdicchio and M Noorman, Springer Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
book series, Berlin
Powers,
TM (2023). Artificial Moral Dispositions in Humans and Computers, in Artificial
Dispositions: Investigating Ethical and Metaphysical Issues, eds. WA Bauer
and A Marmadoro, Bloomsbury Publishing, London
Dubljević, V, G List, J Milojevich, N Ajmeri, WA Bauer, MP Singh, E Bardaka, TA Birkland, CHW Edwards, RC Mayer, I Muntean, TM Powers, HA Rakha, VA Ricks, and MS Samanda (2021). Toward a rational and ethical
sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of
multi-criteria decision analysis, PLoS ONE
Robinson,
P, A Sun, H Furey, R Jenkins, CR Phillips, TM Powers,
R Ritterson, Y Xie, R Casagrande, and N.G. Evans
(2021). Modelling Ethical Algorithms in Autonomous Vehicles Using Crash Data,
in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Powers,
TM, and Ganascia, JG, (2020). The Ethics of the
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, in Oxford
Handbook of Ethics of AI, eds. M Dubber, F Pasquale, and S Das, Oxford
University Press
Tolmeijer, S, A Weiss, M Hanheide, F Lindner, TM Powers, C Dixon, and M Tielman
(2020). Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant
Failures and Mitigation Strategies, in Proceedings
of Human Robot Interaction 2020 (HRI ’20), ACM, New York, NY, USA
Ganascia, JG, C Tessier, and TM Powers,
(2018). On the autonomy and threat of “killer robots” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 17 (2)
Powers,
TM (2017). Intersecting Traditions in the Philosophy of Computing, in
Philosophy and Computing: Essays in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic,
and Ethics, ed. TM Powers,
Springer Publishing
Powers,
TM and Shah, SI (2017). Technological Ethics in Context: The Case of
Nanotechnology, in Philosophy: Technology,
ed. AF Beavers, Gale Cengage: Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks
Powers,
TM (2016). Prospects for a Kantian Machine, in Machine Ethics and Robot Ethics, eds. W Wallach and P Asaro,
Ashgate Publishing/Routledge 2017 paperback [republication of Powers TM (2006)]
Shah, SI
and Powers, TM (2015). Nanotechnology: A Path Forward for Developing Nations, Institute of Physics Conference Series
92
Powers,
TM (2014). Consequentialism, in Ethics,
Science, Technology and Engineering: A Global Resource, 2nd Edition, ed. JB
Holbrook, Macmillan Reference USA [revision of Powers, TM (2005)]
Powers,
TM (2014). Deontology, in Ethics,
Science, Technology and Engineering: A Global Resource, 2nd Edition, ed. JB
Holbrook, Macmillan Reference USA [revision of Powers, TM (2005)]
Powers, TM (2014). Models for Machine Ethics, APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 14 (1)
Powers, TM (2014). Orientation in Philosophical Research, APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 13 (2)
Johnson,
DG and Powers, TM (2014). Ethics and Technology: A Program for Future Research
in Society, Ethics, and Technology, 5th
edition, eds. M Winston and R Edelbach, Wadsworth
Publishing, Boston Mass. [republication of Johnson & Powers (2005)]
Powers,
TM and Shah, SI (2013). Teaching a Course on Ethics in Nanoscience, Journal of Nano Education 5, 1-6
Powers,
TM (2013). On the Moral Agency of Computers, Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy 32 (2)
Powers,
TM (2011). Prospects for a Kantian Machine, in Machine Ethics, eds. M Anderson and S Anderson, Cambridge
University Press [republication of Powers TM (2006)]
Powers,
TM (2011). Incremental Machine Ethics, IEEE
Robotics and Automation 18 (1)
Powers,
TM (2009). Machines and Moral Reasoning, Philosophy
Now 72
Powers,
TM (2009). Preface, in Creating a Global Dialogue on Value Inquiry, J
Yan & D Schrader (eds.), Edwin Mellen Press
Powers,
TM (2008). Environmental Holism and Nanotechnology, in Nanotechnology and Society:
Current and Emerging Ethical Issues, eds. F Allhoff
and P Lin, Springer Publishing
Johnson,
DG, and Powers, TM (2008). Computers as Surrogate Agents, in Information Technology and Moral Philosophy,
eds. MJ van den Hoven and J Weckert, Cambridge
University Press
Powers,
TM (2006). Prospects for a Kantian Machine, IEEE
Intelligent Systems 21 (4)
Johnson,
DG, and Powers, TM (2005). Computer Systems and Responsibility: A Normative
Look at Technological Complexity, Ethics
and Information Technology 7(2), Kluwer Publishing
Johnson,
DG, and Powers, TM (2005). Ethics and Technology: A Program for Future
Research, in Encyclopedia of Science,
Technology, and Ethics, ed. C Mitcham, Gale Publishing
Powers,
TM (2005). Consequentialism, in Encyclopedia
of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. C Mitcham, Gale Publishing
Powers,
TM (2005). Deontology, in Encyclopedia of
Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. C Mitcham, Gale Publishing
Powers,
TM (2005). Deontological Machine Ethics, Technical Report, American
Association for Artificial Intelligence, Palo Alto, 2005
Powers,
TM (2004). Ideas, Expressions, Universals, and Particulars: Metaphysics in the
Realm of Software Copyright Law, in Intellectual
Property Rights in a Networked World, H Tavani and R Spinello,
Idea Group Publishing
Powers, TM (2004). Real Wrongs
in Virtual Communities, Ethics and
Information Technology 5 (4),
Kluwer Publishing
Powers, TM (2002).
Responsibility in Software Engineering: Uncovering an Ethical Model, in The
Transformation of Organizations in the Information Age: Proceedings of the
Sixth International ETHICOMP Conference, Universidade
Lusiada de Lisboa
Powers, TM (1999). The Legacy of
Kantian Rationalism for Social Theory, in From Kant to Weber: Freedom
and Culture in Classical German Social Theory, eds. TM Powers and P Kamolnick, Krieger Publishing
Powers,
TM (1999). The Integrity of Body: Kantian Moral Constraints on the Physical
Self, in Philosophy and Medicine 60, Kluwer Publishing.
Powers, TM (2019). Review of Living with Robots by Paul Dumouchel and Luisa Damiano, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017, in Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, pp. 211-14.
Powers, TM (2014). Review of Emerging Pervasive Information and
Communication Technologies: Ethical Challenges, Opportunities, and Safeguards,
ed. KD Pimple, 2014, in Journal of
Philosophy, Science & Law 14, pp. 1-5.
1.
NSF OKN: A
Dynamically-Updated Open Knowledge Network for Health: Integrating Biomedical
Insights with Social Determinants of Health, University of Delaware (with UVa
& Univ. Iowa), 2023-26, Key Personnel ($1.5 million)
2.
DARPA
AI Forward Workshop, Summer 2023, Travel Scholarship recipient, Boston
3.
UNIDEL Foundation: Communications Training for UD
Researchers, University of Delaware, 2021-24, Faculty Collaborator ($167,608)
4.
NSF HDR: Delaware and Mid-Atlantic Data Science
Corps, University of Delaware, 2021-24, Key Personnel ($1.5 million)
5.
Herman & Charlotte Glotzer
Scholarship for the Study of Ideas: The Dilemma of Artificial Autonomy,
University of Delaware, 2019-20, Principal Investigator ($4,000)
6. NSF
REU SITE: Interfacing Sustainable Energy and Materials, 2015-18, Senior
Personnel ($360,577)
7. NSF SES: Becoming the Online
Resource Center for Ethics Education in Engineering and Science (Supplement, with
the National Academy of Engineering, PI R. Hollander), 2014-2019, Delaware Lead
Investigator, ($209,239)
8. NSF IGERT: Systems Biology in
Engineered Environments, 2012-17, Faculty Personnel, ($3 million)
9. USDA NIFA: Agriculture's Global
Challenges: Food Security, Bioenergy, and Biodiversity--Building Educational
and Research Partnerships with Brazil, 2011-14, Co-PI ($150,000)
10. NSF OISE: U.S.-Pakistan Workshop
on Environmental Nanotechnology & Ethics, 2011, Co-PI ($60,000)
11. NSF & DE EPSCoR:
Research Infrastructure Improvement Grant (RII-2), 2008-2013, Co-PI ($20.5
million)
12. NSF NUE: Connecting
Nanotechnology and Alternative Energy Approaches through Undergraduate
Education in Engineering, 2009-13, Co-PI ($199,190)
13. Delaware Humanities Forum Grant:
The Ethics of Climate Change, 2009, Principal Investigator, ($13,000)
14. American Philosophical
Association: Conference Grant for "The Ethics of Climate Change"
2009, Principal Investigator, with Fred Schueler
($5,000)
15. NSF REU: Nature InSpired Engineering, University of Delaware, 2009-2012,
Faculty Personnel
16. UD Graduate Improvement and
Innovation Grant, RAISE-2, 2008-2009, Principal Investigator ($67,000)
17. NSF EESE: RAISE--Research And Integrity in Science and Engineering, 2007-2009,
Principal Investigator ($99,800)
18. NSF New England Workshop on
Science and Social Change “Collaborative Generation of Environmental Knowledge
and Inquiry” Woods Hole, Mass., April 2007, Participant
19. NSF & DE EPSCoR:
Research Infrastructure Improvement Grant (RII-1), 2006-2008, Senior Personnel
($6.67 million)
20. NSF REU: Creating Computer
Applications for Medicine, University of Virginia, Summers 2005 and 2006,
Ethics faculty personnel
21. NSF CCLI-DUE: Developing
On/Off-line Computer Ethics (DOLCE), Golden, Co., May 2002, Participant
22. Center for Science, Technology,
and Society Summer Faculty Research Grant, "Defining the Parameters of
Undergraduate Web-based Research" Santa Clara University June 2000,
Principal Investigator
23. Center for Science, Technology,
and Society Summer Faculty Research Grant, "Developing a Text for the
Philosophy Course: Science, Technology, and Ethics" Santa Clara University
June 1999, Principal Investigator
24. School of Engineering Grant for
Engineering Ethics, Santa Clara University, Summer 1999, Principal Investigator
25. University Curriculum
Development Grant "Developing a New Graduate Course in Software
Engineering Ethics" Santa Clara University 1998-99, Co-PI
26. Markkula Center for Applied
Ethics Grant, Faculty Seminar on Affirmative Action, Santa Clara University
1998-99, Participant
27. NEH Summer Seminar on German
Social Theory, University of Chicago, 1995, Participant
1.
“Deontological
Ethics in AI” IACAP 2024, University of Oregon, Eugene, July 2024
2.
“The
Ethics of AI in the Classroom and in the Lab” University of New England,
Biddeford, Maine, April 2024
3.
“Rethinking
Research Ethics in the Age of Generative AI” AI for Teaching and Learning
Seminar, University of Delaware, October 2023
4.
“Trust”
Dagstuhl Seminar Tutorial, Roadmap for Responsible
Robotics, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik,
Germany, September 2023
5.
“The
Ethics of Data Science and AI” North East Regional IDeA Conference, Wilmington Delaware, August 2023
6.
“Can
AIs Behave Themselves? Towards a Genuine Machine Ethics” European and North
American Workshop on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Rome, October 2022
7.
“Corporate
Robotic Responsibility” International Association for Computing and
Philosophy (IACAP), Santa
Clara, July 2022
8.
“‘The
Right’ and ‘The Good’ in STEM Ethics” UD Materials Research Society, March 2021
9.
“What
are the Ethics of Data Science and AI?” UD Center for Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology, March 2021
10. “A Data Ethics Ontology” UD
Computational Social Science Symposium, October 2020
11. “Considerations of the Ethics of
AI” IEEE Delaware Bay Section, October 2020
12. “The Predicament of the Ethics
of AI” North Carolina State University, February 2020
13. “Machine Ethics: Philosophical
Approaches” Dagstuhl seminar on “Ethics and Trust:
Principles, Verification and Validation,” Leibniz-Zentrum
für Informatik, Germany, April 2019
14. “Computational Data Science:
Epistemological and Ethical Challenges” Keynote Address, International
Association for Computing and Philosophy, Warsaw, June 2018
15. “Answering CP Snow’s ‘Two
Cultures’: Doing Philosophy with Science” Universitat
des les Illes Balears,
Spain, June 2018
16. “Artificial Intelligence,
Automation, and Autonomy” Workshop on Regulation of Artificial Intelligence,
University of Surrey School of Law, Surrey, England, March 2018
17.
“Globalizing
Science and Engineering Ethics: Convergence or Equilibrium?” Society for Philosophy and Technology,
Darmstadt, Germany, June 2017
18. “The Ambivalent Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles” Transport Futures: Mobility Pricing and Automated Vehicles Conference, Toronto, November 2016
19. “Perspicuous Normative Language” Automated Vehicles Symposium, San Francisco July 2016
20. “Understanding International Perspectives in Science and Engineering Ethics” American Society for Engineering Education, New Orleans, June 2016
21. “Towards a Prescriptive Deontological Non-Monotonic Machine Ethics” (with Jean-Gabriel Ganascia), IACAP, Ferarra Italy, June 2016
22. “Robots: Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues” Osher Institute, Wilmington, Delaware, April 2016
23. “Nanotechnology: A Path Forward for Developing Nations” (with Ismat Shah), Science in the Developing World, University of Waterloo, Canada, September 2015
24. “Top-down Machine Ethics” Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Vancouver, April 2015
25. “Science and Ethics: A Shifting Relationship” Delaware Environmental Institute, Wilmington, February 2015
26. “Can There Be an Ethics of Design?” SRPoiSE Group Meeting, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December 2014
27. “Information Justice” Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December 2014
28. “The Ethics of High-Tech Warfare” Pennsylvania Alliance for STEM Education, West Chester Pennsylvania, November 2014
29. “The Promise and Peril of Principles in Research Ethics” (with Mark Greene) 9th Annual Nursing Research Conference, Newark Delaware, November 2014
30. “Safety, Privacy, and Meta-Data” (with Eric Best) Computer Ethics--Philosophical Enquiry, Paris France, June 2014
31. “Parameters and Information Sources for an Autonomous Robot” (Panel on Ethics and Autonomous Agents) Computer Ethics--Philosophical Enquiry, Paris, June 2014
32. “The Ethics of the Bioenergy Market” Brazil Symposium: Global Challenges in Agriculture, Environment, and Energy, Newark Delaware, May 2014
33. “The Public Computer System and Accountability” Northeast Conference on Public Administration, Newark Delaware, November 2013
34. “Prospects for a Smithian Machine” International Association for Computing and Philosophy, College Park, Maryland, July 2013
35. “Environmental Ethics and Nanotechnology” Joint International Workshop on Nanotechnology: Policy, Ethics and Science, Islamabad, Pakistan March 2013
36. “A New Naturalism for Environmental Ethics” University of Genoa, Italy, January 2013
37. “Teaching Ethics to Scientists: Why Rules and Consequences Matter” University of Miami, September 2012
38. “Teaching a Course in Ethics in
Nanoscience” AAAS Science & Human Rights Meeting, Washington D.C., July
2012
39. “Explaining Technological
Action” Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, July 2012
40. “Aggregation and Future
Individuals” International Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis, Tilburg
University, the Netherlands, July 2012
41. “Science-related Ethics and
Public Policy Research" Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil, April 2012
42. “Cases and Methods in Research
Ethics” Medical Society of Delaware Spring CME Symposium, Newark DE, April 2012
43. “Decision Procedures for
Nanotechnology Development" 3rd Int'l Conference on Nanotechnology (Al
Ain, U.A.E.), December 2011
44. “Decision Procedures for
Nanotechnology Development" ISESCO-COMSATS-NSF Int'l Conference on
Nanomaterials & Nanoethics (Lahore, Pakistan),
December 2011
45. “Fabrics of Science: Quine and
the Possibility of Collaboration" Pacific Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, San Diego, April 2011
46. “The Machines are Here and
Driving Us: Allen and Wallach's Moral
Machines" Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical
Association, San Francisco, April 2010
47. “Kantian Humanism and Human
Enhancement” Oxford University, December 2009
48. “Author Meets Critics” for Jerry
Gaus (Kavka Prize in
Political Philosophy), Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical
Association, Vancouver, April 2009
49. “Ethics and Biofuels:
Distributive and Intergenerational Justice” Society of Toxicology Annual
Meeting, Baltimore, March 2009
50. “Author Meets Critics” session
for Moral Machines by
C. Allen and W. Wallach, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics,
Cincinnati, March 2009
51. “Virtual Action Theory”
Conference on Virtual Worlds and Interpretive Communities, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, February 2009
52. “Getting ‘Good Science’ Right:
Research Ethics and the America COMPETES Act” California Polytechnic
University, San Luis Obispo, February 2009
53. “AI and Eldercare” (invited
ethics symposium speaker) Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence Fall Symposium, November 2008
54. “Bioethics in a Time of Changing
Technologies” Nemours Center for Pediatric Research, Delaware, September 2008
55. “The Ethics of Biofuels:
Starving Peter to Drive Paul?” Plants & Soils: Montreal ’08 (invited
plenary symposium speaker) July 2008
56. “Neuroimaging and Philosophical
Moral Psychology” Institute for Clinical Research, Montreal, July 2008
57. “Is Ethics Computable?” (invited
plenary session panelist) North American Computing and Philosophy Conference
(NA-CAP), Indiana, July 2008
58. “Smith and Kant on Moral
Psychology” University of Delaware, April 2008
59. “Discovering Engineering Ethics
in the Silicon Valley” American Society for Engineering Education Annual
Conference, July 2007
60. “Design and Action: A Framework
for the Philosophy of Engineering” University of North Carolina-Charlotte,
February 2007
61. “Can There Be a Science of
Ethics?” Delaware Biotechnology Institute, October 2006
62. “Distributive Justice and
Information Technology” Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, January 2006
63. “Deontological Machine Ethics”
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium,
November 2005
64. “An Account of the Moral Agency
of Technology” University of North Texas, February 2005
65. “Towards a Kantian Critique of
Technology (the Long Route)” Drexel University, January 2005
66. “On De George’s The Ethics of
Information Technology and Business” Eastern Division Meeting of the
American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 2004
67. “Normative Arguments and the
Apparent Conflict of Values” University of Delaware General Education
Institute, June 2004
68. “Intentionality and Moral Agency
in Computers” European Computing and Philosophy (E-CAP), Pavia, Italy, June
2004
69. “Computers as Surrogate Agents”
(with Deborah Johnson) ETHICOMP-Syros, Greece, April 2004
70. “How Much Theory: Towards a
Meta-Applied Ethics” 13th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati, February 2004
71. “A Kantian Critique of
Technology” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, October 2003
72. “The World According to Kant”
Philosophical Forum, Linköping, Sweden, September 2003
73. “The Moral Agency of Technology”
University of Linköping, Sweden, September 2003
74. “Real Wrongs in Virtual
Communities,” Fifth International Conference of Computer Ethics - Philosophical
Enquiry (CEPE), Boston College, June 2003
75. “Ideas, Expressions, Universals,
and Particulars,” Sixth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference, Boston
College, June 2003
76. “The Computer Layer in Pedagogy”
Pacific Division Meeting American Philosophical Association and the Society for
Philosophy and Technology, San Francisco, April 2003
77. “Responsible Computing: Towards
a Policy for University Computer Use,” Markkula Center for Applied Ethics,
Santa Clara University, April 2003
78. “An Idiosyncratic Philosophy of
Technology,” TCC Colloquium, University of Virginia, January 2003
79. “Responsibility in Software
Engineering: Uncovering an Ethical Model,” ETHICOMP-Lisbon, November 2002
80. “Kantian Freedom and the
Defeasible Conception of Dignity,” Pacific Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 2002
81. “A Kantian Account of Dignity,”
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, January 2001
82. “The Kantian Critique of
Technology,” San Jose Intercollegiate Philosophy Forum, November 2000
83. “Consistency and the Categorical
Imperative,” University of California at Santa Cruz, November 1997
84. “Some Problems with Kantian
Ethical Formalism,” Central Division Meeting, American Philosophical
Association, Pittsburgh, May 1997
85. “Georg Simmel as a Neo-Kantian,”
Simmel Conference, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 1996
86. “The ‘Object of Experience’ in
Kant’s Critical Metaphysics,” St. Joseph’s University, February 1996
87. “Kantian Reflections on Bodies
and Body-Parts,” Northern Arizona University, January 1996
OTHER NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Canada Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council Proposal Reviewer, 2024
NIH Workshop “Toward
and Ethical Framework for AI in Biomedical and Behavioral Research:
Transparency for Data and Model Reuse” Participant, 2024
GPPC “Ethics of
Big Data” panel host and organizer (with Noel Swanson), Drexel University, 2023
Dagstuhl Seminar invited participant:
"Roadmap for Responsible Robotics" Leibniz Center for Informatics,
Germany, September 11 -15, 2023
International Jury for research chairs, Artificial and
Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI), France 2023-24
IACAP Special Track, Minds & Machines SIG, “Generative
AI and Machine Thinking”, Prague 2023
National Science
Foundation Grant Proposal Review Panels: STS, AI & Society, and Graduate
Research Fellowship Program, 2014-16, 2019, 2021, 2022
Switzerland National Science Foundation Grant Proposal
Reviewer, 2020
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Grant
Proposal Reviewer, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022
Dagstuhl Seminar invited participant:
"Ethics and Trust: Principles, Verification and Validation" Leibniz
Center for Informatics, Germany, April 22 -26, 2019
Editorial Board, International Journal of Technoethics, 2020-
Online Ethics Center, National Academy of Engineering and
Uva, International Perspectives Editor, 2015-
Editorial Advisory Board, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 2016-
Reviewer for the
journals Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, IEEE Technology &
Society, Science and Engineering Ethics, Minds & Machines, Idealistic
Studies, mBio, Annals of
Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, International Journal of
Human-Computer Interaction, Ethics
and Information Technology, Journal of Business Ethics, Accountability in Research, Techne, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice,
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, AI & Society, Kriterion-Journal of Philosophy
Advisory Board, The Nanoethics
Group
Ethics Advisory Board, The Lifeboat Foundation
Board of Management, Consortium for Socially-Relevant
Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering (SRPoiSE),
2014-
AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition, Ethics and Human
Rights Working Group, 2012
Committee on Bioethics and Ethics in Science of the Fédération Internationale
des Sociétés de Philosophie (FISP)
Committee on Public Philosophy, American Philosophical
Association, Member 2009-2012
Faculty Scholar, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa
Clara University, 1997-2003